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neither list is free from error; for ^Idward More (as to whom see * D.N.B.,' xxxviii. 413) appears as Archdeacon of Lewes in 'Valor Ecelesiasticus ' (1535); and the 'Composi- tion Books' at the Record Office show that John Shereye, clerk, compounded for the first- fruits of the archdeaconry on 17 January, 33 Hen. VIII. (1541/2), about the date of More's death. Shereye's successor, Richard Brislev, compounded on 10 September, 5 Edw. VI. (1551). H. C.

TOAD FOLK-LORE. The following occurs in the Lindseyand Lincolnshire Star of 29 March, p. 6:-

" The Leytonstone guardians have discovered a primitive cure for smallpox in one of their registers for the year 1700. The recipe was evidently placed on the minutes as being a standard remedy. ' Take thirty to forty live toads and burn them to cinders in a new pot ; then crush into a fine black powder. Dose for smallpox. 3 oz.' "

N. M. & A.

"UNEDA" AND OTHER OLD CONTRIBUTORS TO ' N. & Q.' Some of your most valued correspondents have chosen to use initials or fictitious names as a signature. A writer may have good reason for concealing his identity while living ; but such reason will usually lose its force after his decease. I therefore suggest that an effort be made to preserve the memory of HERMENTRUDE, JUXTA TURRIM, MELETES, and a score of others who in their day did good service to the literary world. A very learned con- tributor was F. C. H, who, as I gather, was Dr. Husenbeth. "In memoria seterna erit Justus." Will not some one write a memoir of him? My excellent friend Dr. Horace Howard Furness informs me that UNEDA, a Philadelphia correspondent, was Mr. William Duane, son of William J. Duane. The latter was a lawyer, the draughtsman of the famous will of Stephen Girard. He married a granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin. UNEDA was married, but left no children. He was a strange, solitary, un- sociable man, but a man who read with a pen in his hand. Another Philadelphia correspondent of the last generation was BAR-POINT, who perhaps was Mr. Ash worth. RICHARD H. THORNTON.

Portland, Oregon.

[Appreciative notices of Dr. Husenbeth appeared in 4 th S. x. 365, 388, 441, at the time of his death in 1872. Biographies of him are supplied in the first volume of Boase s ' Modern English Biography ' and in the 'D.N.B.' HERMENTRUDE was Miss Emily S. Holt. A short obituary notice was given 8 th S. v. 20."

HOYLE ON BACKGAMMON. I have had occa- sion to refer to the notice of Edmond Hoyle

n the 'Dictionary of National Biography, and I find it there stated that the first edition of his treatise on backgammon appeared without a title-page. The writer has evi- dently followed the erroneous statement in 4 N. & Q.,' 7 th S. viii. 201, which, so far as I Know, has not been contradicted. My copy of the treatise has the title-page as follows :

"A Short | Treatise | on the Game of | Back- ammon. | Containing | a Table of the thirty six

chances, | By Edmond Hoyle, Gent | London:

iates in Fleet-Street, 1743. | [Price 2-s. 6d.] "
 * Printed for F. Cogan, between the two | Temple-

I have also a copy of the sheet of the ' Laws of Whist,' designed for framing (7 th S. viii. 144), dated 174G. The price has been reduced to a shilling. I know of the existence of a imilar copy. F. J.

YTTINGAFORDA. This place, mentioned in the 'Saxon Chronicle' under anno 906, has not hitherto been identified, so far as I can discover. Thorpe gives it Hitchin, which is miles away from any " ford." Dr. Giles has Hitchingford, without suggesting the locality. T. Miller thinks it is tilting or Maldon, places far removed from the probable scene of the treaty between King Edward and the Northumbrians and East Anglians.

I would suggest Wittingfprd or Witten- ford, at the northern extremity of Minstead parish, as the probable site. It is close to Cadnam, where several important roads meet, and should form a suitable gathering- place. The circumstance that Ytene was an early name for the New Forest has given rise to a notion in my mind that Yttingaforda is in this district, and a careful examination of the Ordnance map has revealed the exist- ence of Wittingford. (The old one-inch map is the one consulted.) It is an obscure little corner of England now, but it is worth while putting on record that the place may be of great historic interest. EDWARD SMITH.

Walthamstow.

"WISDOM" IN ECCLESIASTICUS. A verse in the apocryphal Book of Ecclesiasticus, vi. 22, has hitherto proved a puzzle to the com- mentators. In the Authorized Version it runs, ** For wisdom is according to her name, and she is not manifest unto many." The Greek is : 2o</a yap Kara TO 6vofj,a O.VTV)<S

(TTL, Kal Ol) TToAAotS 6CTTI C^CU'epa. Dl'. EderS-

heim, commenting on this in the 4 Speaker's Commentary ' edition, edited by Dr. Wace, says :

"It seems impossible by any critical ingenuity to explain the first clause of this verse, since there is not any Hebrew or Greek word which would admit of a play upon the word ' wisdom.' "